Can you say irony, kiddies? I knew you could!
Nessie? Taken in 1972
NEW YORK --Saks Fifth Avenue says its new shoe
department is so big and fancy it's getting its own ZIP code.
The quintessential Manhattan store is revamping
its shoe department, and when it moves from the fourth floor to the eighth floor in August customers will be able to send mail to 10022-SHOE.
"We believe it's such a big move for us it deserves its own ZIP code," Saks spokeswoman Lesley Langsam Kennedy said Thursday. "We wanted to make it a destination."
The U.S. Postal Service said it worked with the retailer on the new ZIP code, which is just promotional. Only the last four characters, which aren't necessary when you're mailing something, are specialized, and they won't be read by sorting machines.
The rest of the midtown neighborhood, which includes St. Patrick's Cathedral, shares 10022.
The new 8,500-square-foot Saks showroom at the flagship Fifth Avenue store will have more shoes, more service and more stock room capability, Langsam Kennedy said. It also will feature a VIP room for private shopping, spacious seating, refreshments and shoe repair on hand, she said.
Saks operates 54 stores in 25 states and two stores in the Middle East.
Scientists blame the rapid disappearance of the Arakan forest turtle — much like other shelled reptiles — on their popularity in Asia for cooking and medicinal purposes.
"For a species this close to extinction, it is simply not acceptable that they are being eaten," said Joseph Mendelson, curator of herpetology at the zoo.
Captive breeding programs don't "solve the problem of them being overharvested in the wild. It does make sure they don't go extinct while we work to solve that problem," Mendelson said.
The turtle has an abysmal survival rate. Hatchlings often die both in captivity and the wild, and food traders are plundering the population of adult turtles that could keep the species going.
The turtles are very delicate and mate only once a year.
"The animals seem to be extremely difficult to establish in captivity," said Peter Paul van Dijk, director of the tortoise and freshwater turtle program for Conservation International.
MARENGO – Tina Holley’s teenage daughter nearly died this week after overdosing on potent cold medication.
Now Holley wants to make sure that other teenagers in her town won’t be able to get their hands on Coricidin Cough and Cold tablets, also known as “Triple C,” the over-the-counter medication that nearly claimed her daughter’s life and has become a nationwide concern among parents.
Holley, 39, said that although her daughter, whom she asked not be identified in the story, has a history of drug use and mental-health problems, she believes that the easy accessibility of Triple C was part of the reason why the girl allegedly shoplifted the tablets from the shelf of a local grocery store Tuesday and consumed 14 of them.
“[Children] are doing this because there’s an easy way to get them,” Holley said. “They can’t get to marijuana, they can’t get to cocaine – not easily and not without money.”
(CNN) -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, a U.S. senator from Illinois, has been placed under the protection of the Secret Service, the agency said Thursday.
The government is not aware of any specific, credible threat against Obama, according to a law enforcement source familiar with the decision. But his office has received hate mail and calls and other "threatening materials" in the past and during his campaign, the source said.
Call it a hunch, but I'd be checking those envelopes for Hillary's DNA...
Wonder if Hillary will send a little note to Michelle saying the secret service do a great job on security but a lousy job of squealing about your man's extra-curricular activities?
As a Procrastinating Perfectionist, Al loves doing puzzles, or, well, anything beyond something productive. At first it was just the Jumble. Bugs me to death that he’s so damn good at it. While I’m still unscrambling the first word, he’s done. And the paper is facing me.
Now he’s discovered Sudoku.
A little late to the party, but that’s to be expected from a procrastinator.
He fills them all in perfectly, no little crossout numbers, no little ‘mistake scribbles’. Perfectly. In pen. In black ink. Because he won’t use blue.
Now, I’m not sure how this particular super-power is going to save the world, but trust that it is. I’ve taken to calling him Inky-Doku. Wouldn’t that make an awesome Manga character?
Help! Inky Doku! There’s a crazed serial killer on the loose!
What areas of the city has he struck in?
Well, there’s one body on Third Street, four bodies on Ninth Street, and eight bodies on Fifth Avenue…
I’ve got it! The next attack will be at First Avenue!
How do you know, Inky Doku?
It’s the only place that hasn’t been used South of Matrix Boulevard.
Awww! Thank you Inky Doku! You’ve saved us!!
No problem. It’s my Sixth Sense.
I have to go put blue refill cartridges in all the pens now. He's asleep.
